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Autoportrait of the nonhuman
Trnková, Barbora ; Horáková, Jana (referee) ; Klodová, Lenka (referee) ; Ruller, Tomáš (advisor)
The work conducted through artistic-research methods, spanning across several interconnected projects and their explications, examines the proclaimed overcoming of rationalistic dualities personified in the in the cyborg metaphor. It showcases how mediated digital thinking obstructs the perception of the other, posing a risk to feminist visions inspired by this metaphor. In the spirit of glitch feminism, instances of algorithmic biases are proposed, revealing glitches within normative hegemony mediated by the outcomes of learning algorithms, to be positively perceived as opportunities for their identification and removal. Furthermore, it introduces the category of the non-human other, fabricated through dehumanizing and tabooed violence. In comparison to the nature of the pornographic and the erotic, and in the context of the concept of becoming, a path towards acquiring autonomy of the other is hinted. Alongside the creation of alternatives that disrupt dominant hegemony, a shift in focus towards subtractive strategies is suggested, acknowledging the uprising of the non-human within us, while suspending the transcendental subject in the same move. This addresses the issue of preserving the subject, which interprets the other.
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Archives and documentation of performance art: at the intersection between history and myth.
Písaříková, Jana ; Šedivá, Barbora (referee) ; Havlík, Vladimír (referee) ; Horáková, Jana (referee) ; Ruller, Tomáš (advisor)
The PhD thesis deals with the role of archives in the contemporary artistic and curatorial practice, with an emphasis on the performance art. It also analyses the creation process, methodology and the contents of selected personal and institutional archives in both Czech and international contexts. The objective of the paper is to answer the following questions: In what way is the documentation and subsequent archiving of process-oriented forms of art performed? How is the history of the contemporary art formed and interpreted through these archives and with the help of the artistic and curatorial practice? To what extent are we able to reconstruct the history from records and performance documents that are only fragmented, thus making a reference to a real action? Do the archives leave some room for misinterpretation, creating a myth or personality cult through its system of classification of knowledge? How indeed is the performance art related to its own history; how is this history perceived by the performer alone; and how is it approached by the professional audience? The paper will also include the analysis of current state and possible solutions to the operation of the archive of the Faculty of Fine Arts, which is related to opening a dialogue among artists, theorists and institutions that might be interested in better accessibility of such an archive.
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Business Plan for Establishment of Bistro, Bar
Horáková, Jana ; Mičák, Peter (referee) ; Chlebovský, Vít (advisor)
The subject of my work is to prepare a business plan for the future opening of a bar/bistro and also to evaluate the possibility of its realization. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of basic information about the upcoming business, its requisites and structure. In the practical part, there is the whole process of the business plan itself.
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Xenologies: Sociality on an Alien Planet
Bohal, Vít ; Armand, Louis (advisor) ; Horáková, Jana (referee) ; Malečková, Dita (referee)
(ENG): The dissertation explores the use of the morpheme 'xeno' in anglophone theory and literature, and aims to formulate a comparative xenology which would address its contemporary meaning and significations. The term 'Xenology' has existed since the 1950s, largely denoting a speculative science researching alien life, and Part I provides a historically reflexive analysis of the xenologies of the second half of the twentieth century, culminating with a critical analysis of the project Xenologies: Immigrant Instruments by avant-garde artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. Part II then moves to formulate a comparative xenology drawing on contemporary projects which have notably utilized the xeno and its relation to the alien, uncanny or other. A central feature of the discourse is the xeno's collusion with the social sphere - where some theorists use it as an index towards a sublime transhumanism, others develop its original social resonances; this dissonance is addressed throughout the work. As a meta-narrative on the xeno today, comparative xenology is constructed around three modes - the figural, the procedural and inhuman - which are discussed in relation to three contemporary xenoprojects - xenofeminism, xeno-architecture and xenoplanetarity, respectively. Part III then features a glossary of the most...
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Autoportrait of the nonhuman
Trnková, Barbora ; Horáková, Jana (referee) ; Klodová, Lenka (referee) ; Ruller, Tomáš (advisor)
The work conducted through artistic-research methods, spanning across several interconnected projects and their explications, examines the proclaimed overcoming of rationalistic dualities personified in the in the cyborg metaphor. It showcases how mediated digital thinking obstructs the perception of the other, posing a risk to feminist visions inspired by this metaphor. In the spirit of glitch feminism, instances of algorithmic biases are proposed, revealing glitches within normative hegemony mediated by the outcomes of learning algorithms, to be positively perceived as opportunities for their identification and removal. Furthermore, it introduces the category of the non-human other, fabricated through dehumanizing and tabooed violence. In comparison to the nature of the pornographic and the erotic, and in the context of the concept of becoming, a path towards acquiring autonomy of the other is hinted. Alongside the creation of alternatives that disrupt dominant hegemony, a shift in focus towards subtractive strategies is suggested, acknowledging the uprising of the non-human within us, while suspending the transcendental subject in the same move. This addresses the issue of preserving the subject, which interprets the other.
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